The paper undertakes an empirical investigation of key macroeconomic factors affecting private investment in the South Pacific developing member countries. The study finds that instability in the real exchange rate had a sizeable adverse effect on private investment.

This report presents the supply and use tables based on the 1993 SNA for 18 economies in Asia and the Pacific region. The tables show detailed structure of the supply and uses of goods and services within an economy and enable a robust cross-country comparison of gross value added and its...